BNC 1190 WORD FORMS (SPOKEN & WRITTEN 1000)

a • a bit • able • about • above • absolutely • accept • access • according to • account • across • act • action • activities • activity • actual • actually • add • added • advice • after • afternoon • again • against • age • ago • agree • agreed • agreement • ah • aha • ain't • air • a little • all • allow • allowed • almost • along • a lot • already • alright • also • although • always • am • among • amount • an • analysis • and • and so on • announced • another • answer • any • anybody • anyone • anything • anyway • anywhere • appear • appeared • approach • appropriate • are • area • areas • aren't • arms • army • around • art • as • as if • ask • asked • asking • association • as well • as well as • at • at all • at least • attention • authorities • authority • available • award • aware • away • away from • awful • aye • baby • back • bad • bag • ball • bank • based • bases • basic • basically • basis • be • became • because • because of • become • bed • been • before • began • behaviour • behind • being • believe • best • bet • better • between • beyond • big • birthday • bit • bits • black • blood • bloody • blue • board • body • book • books • both • bottom • bought • box • boy • boys • bring • brought • budget • building • built • bus • business • but • buy • by • bye • C • call • called • came • can • can't • cannot • capital • car • card • care • carried • carry • cars • case • cases • central • centre • century • certain • certainly • chair • chairman • chance • change • changed • changes • chapter • child • children • choice • church • circumstances • city • class • clear • clearly • close • club • coffee • cold • colour • come • comes • coming • commission • committee • common • community • companies • company • completely • computer • concerned • conditions • consider • considered • continue • continued • contract • control • corner • cos • cost • costs • could • couldn't • council • councillor • countries • country • county • couple • course • court • cup • current • cut • dad • daddy • dark • data • date • day • days • dead • deal • dear • death • decided • decision • defence • definitely • degree • department • described • design • designed • despite • details • developed • development • did • didn't • died • difference • different • difficult • dinner • direct • director • district • do • doctor • does • doesn't • dog • doing • don't • done • door • down • Dr • dunno • during • each • each other • earlier • early • east • easy • eat • economic • economy • education • effect • effective • effects • eh • eight • eighteen • eighty • either • eleven • else • employment • end • energy • enough • ensure • environment • er • erm • especially • established • even • evening • event • events • ever • every • everybody • everyone • everything • evidence • exactly • example • expect • expected • experience • extra • eyes • F • face • fact • fair • fairly • family • far • father • feel • feet • fell • felt • few • field • fifteen • fifty • figure • figures • final • finally • financial • find • fine • finish • finished • fire • first • fish • five • floor • followed • following • follows • food • foot • football • for • force • forces • foreign • for example • forget • form • former • forty • forward • found • four • fourteen • free • friend • friends • from • front • fucking • full • funny • further • future • g • game • garden • gave • general • generally • get • gets • getting • girl • girls • give • given • gives • giving • go • God • goes • going • gone • gonna • good • goods • got • government • great • greater • green • ground • group • groups • growth • h • ha • had • hadn't • hair • half • hall • hand • hands • hang • happen • happened • happening • happens • happy • hard • has • hasn't • have • haven't • having • he • he'd • he'll • he's • he've • head • health • hear • heard • heart • held • hell • hello • help • her • here • herself • high • higher • him • himself • his • history • hit • hold • holiday • home • hon. • hope • hospital • hot • hotel • hour • hours • house • houses • housing • how • however • human • hundred • husband • I • I'd • I'll • I'm • I've • idea • ideas • if • imagine • immediately • important • in • include • included • including • income • indeed • individual • industrial • industry • information • in order • instead of • interest • interested • interesting • interests • in terms of • international • into • investment • involved • is • isn't • issue • issues • it • it's • its • itself • job • jobs • July • June • just • K • keep • kept • kids • kind • king • knew • know • knowledge • known • knows • l • labour • lady • land • language • large • last • late • later • law • learn • leave • led • left • legal • less • let • let's • letter • level • levels • life • light • like • likely • line • lines • list • listen • little • live • lived • local • long • look • looked • looking • looks • lord • loss • lost • lot • lots • love • lovely • low • lower • m • machine • made • main • major • make • makes • making • man • management • manager • many • March • market • material • matter • may • maybe • me • mean • means • meant • meet • meeting • member • members • men • mentioned • met • mhm • middle • might • miles • military • million • mind • mine • minister • minus • minute • minutes • mm • model • modern • moment • money • month • months • more • more than • morning • most • mother • motion • move • moved • movement • moving • Mr • Mrs • much • mum • mummy • music • must • my • myself • name • national • natural • nature • near • nearly • necessary • need • needed • needs • never • new • news • next • nice • night • nine • nineteen • ninety • no • nobody • nor • normal • normally • north • not • nothing • now • number • numbers • n° • o • o'clock • obviously • odd • of • of course • off • offered • office • officer • officers • often • oh • oil • okay • old • on • once • one • ones • only • on to • onto • ooh • open • opened • operation • or • order • original • other • others • otherwise • ought • our • out • out of • outside • over • over there • own • p. • page • paid • paper • pardon • parents • park • part • particular • particularly • parties • parts • party • passed • past • patients • pay • paying • people • per • percent • per cent • performance • perhaps • period • person • personal • phone • pick • picture • piece • place • places • plan • planning • play • played • playing • please • plus • point • points • police • policy • political • poor • popular • population • position • possible • possibly • pound • pounds • power • practice • present • president • press • pressure • pretty • previous • price • prices • prime • private • probably • problem • problems • process • produce • produced • product • production • products • professional • programme • project • property • provide • provided • public • published • put • putting • quality • quarter • question • questions • quick • quickly • quid • quite • radio • range • rate • rates • rather • rather than • reached • read • ready • real • really • reason • reasons • received • recent • recently • reckon • record • red • region • relations • relationship • remember • report • reported • required • research • resources • response • rest • result • results • returned • right • rights • ring • risk • road • role • room • round • royal • rules • run • running • s • said • sales • same • sat • save • saw • say • saying • says • scheme • school • schools • science • sea • season • second • Secretary • section • security • see • seem • seemed • seems • seen • sell • send • sense • sent • series • serious • service • services • set • settlement • seven • seventy • several • shall • shan't • she • she'd • she'll • she's • she've • shop • short • should • shouldn't • show • showed • shown • shut • side • significant • similar • simple • simply • since • single • sir • sit • site • sitting • situation • six • sixteen • sixty • size • small • so • social • society • some • somebody • someone • something • sometimes • somewhere • son • soon • sorry • sort • sort of • sorts • so that • sound • sounds • south • space • speak • special • specific • spend • spent • St • staff • stage • stand • start • started • state • station • stay • still • stood • stop • story • straight • street • strong • structure • students • studies • study • stuff • stupid • style • subject • success • successful • such • such as • suddenly • suggest • suggested • summer • sun • support • suppose • supposed • sure • system • systems • table • take • taken • takes • taking • talk • talking • tape • tax • tea • teachers • team • technology • television • tell • telling • ten • term • terms • terrible • test • than • thank • thanks • that • the • their • them • themselves • then • theory • there • therefore • these • they • they'd • they'll • they're • they've • thing • things • think • thinking • third • thirteen • thirty • this • those • though • thought • thousand • three • through • throughout • thus • till • time • times • title • to • today • together • told • tomorrow • tonight • too • took • top • total • totally • towards • town • trade • traditional • traffic • training • treatment • tried • trouble • try • trying • turn • turned • twelve • twenty • two • type • under • understand • union • unit • united • university • unless • until • up • upon • up to • us • use • used • using • usually • value • various • very • view • village • voice • wait • walk • wall • wanna • want • wanted • wants • war • was • wasn't • watch • water • way • ways • we • we'd • we'll • we're • we've • wear • week • weekend • weeks • well • went • were • weren't • west • western • what • what's • whatever • when • where • whether • which • while • white • who • who's • whole • whom • whose • why • wide • wife • will • window • wish • with • within • without • woman • women • won • won't • wonder • word • words • work • worked • workers • working • works • world • worry • worth • would • wouldn't • write • written • wrong • ya • yeah • year • years • yep • yes • yesterday • yet • yo • you • you'd • you'll • you're • you've • young • your • yours • yourself

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NOTA BENE

Apart from ain't, can't and won't the contracted forms are an extrapolation from the presence of the forms

n't 'll 'd 'm 's 're 've

in the frequency listings ....

All proper names are deleted from this list.

These are the 29 multiple word compounds in the list :

a bit • according to • a little • a lot • and so on • as if • as well • as well as • at all • at least • away from • because of • each other • for example • in order • instead of • in terms of • more than • o'clock • of course • on to • out of • over there • per cent • rather than • sort of • so that • such as • up to